Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great Thanksgiving - Robert's brother Justin and his wife Zhenya came and stayed for a few days and Robert's cousins Hailey and Amy and their families joined us for a Thanksgiving feast, awesome food, lots of laughs and good times. Here are a few pictures...

The adult table - it was nice to sit and be able to chat with each other!

The kid table - cute kids!

And the little kid table - they were very cute in the corner...

Robert took care of the HUGE turkey

Steve keeping the little ones entertained

We had lots of piano - it was fabulous

At the Christmas parade on Friday - we were also able to meet some of my cousins at the parade and it was a lot of fun, beautiful weather and better company. It was crazy to have so many cousins and little second cousins running around - so so fun!

Now onto Christmas fun!

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Piano Fun at Thanksgiving

Now that we have some Halloween Pictures up - let's move onto Thanksgiving. We had a great time! Here is a video of Annie playing the piano with Zhenya - they (especially Annie) had a TON of fun! Zhenya's pretty amazing on the piano.

Halloween continued

I've been meaning to put up a couple of fun Halloween pictures - better late than never? At any rate, now we can move onto possibly posting about the other fun Holidays this year...

The Evolution of Pumpkins

In the spirit of Halloween - here are some of our pumpkins in years past...

And the grand unveiling of 2011....

Busy Building - With Anything!

For as long as the kids have been around, they have loved building things. Whether it be blocks, tinker toys, constructs, and most recently Legos, they LOVE building! Robert should be credied for most of the kids' building abilities. He is frequently on his knees, building right along with them. However, the older they get - the more they do it on their own. I love it, I guess I like it when I feel like they are using their creative juices. I love when we walk in the door from school and I hear the blocks/Legos/Constructs being dumped out.

Tonight as I clicked on a random folder of family pictures, I immediately came across pictures of the kids and their creations. As I scrolled quickly through a few more, I was almost surprised at how many pictures we have of things they have made. Here are some samples of their work through the years.... nothing crazy, but fun nonetheless. Some of the pictures the kids took on their own -

Now even Kate is on the bandwagon and while the kids are at school, she'll work on her own creations and then ask for a picture.

Peter especially loves to build, I saw this picture of him with blocks when he was under a year old!

So knowing how the kids - especially Peter - love to build, should I have been surprised this morning when I got to the kitchen to see just exactly how Peter had decided to unload the dishwasher? I guess not, but I still had to laugh!

Guess we can add dishes to the list of things the kids will use to build with!

Happy Kiddos

It's been a busy, fun fall around here. The kids are growing like weeds and are having lots of fun. The kids love having Tyler around and love that he is interacting more and more with them. Everyone wants a shot at holding him. Here are a couple of cute pictures - enjoy!